Sex, economics, evolution, and stuckness all play roles in this new study about the evolution of larger penises in hermit crabs: “Private parts for private property: evolution of penis size with more valuable, easily stolen shells,” Mark E. Laidre, Royal Society Open Science, epub 2019. (Thanks to Thomas Michel for bringing this to our attention.) […]
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Two tales of headphone jacks gone awry
Two reports about headphone jacks, appearing in the same year, raise possibilities. Here are portions of the two reports, side by side: Mark Wilson writes, in Fast Company magazine: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back Two years after Apple removed the iPhone’s headphone jack, life without it still sucks…. The Asian […]
A Biological Switching Valve Discovered in the Famous Sex-Role Reversed Cave Insect
The team that won the 2017 Ig Nobel Biology Prize for discovering a female penis, and a male vagina, in a cave insect has published a new paper, reporting a further discovery about the body parts of that insect. Their new paper is “A Biological Switching Valve Evolved in the Female of a Sex-Role Reversed […]
A look back at the Penises of the Animal Kingdom poster
Colin Dickey, writing in Topic magazine, explores the history of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning poster “Penises of the Animal Kingdom” and its creator, Jim Knowlton. Dickey’s report bears the headline “The Penis Poster That Rubbed People the Wrong Way“: “… Knowlton had been a graduate student at Columbia University, working on a PhD in particle […]